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Conspiracy theory not needed. I read a note on Twitter that beautifully described the ops situation: somewhere there's a process that writes a log file, and log rolling hasn't been automated for that one yet, and an engineer had i
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"Thing is, when the company that pays you actively wants to track everyone, there's little you can do as the person that creates tech form them." You can quit. Literally, there is something you can do. If your boss asks you t
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More HN commentary on the post of the Twitter version of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33619874
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I went through and commented the Perl tokeniser (toke.c) back in the late 90s/early 2000s, and my mind was blown by the "is this regular expression syntax involving $ or is it a variable interpolation involving $"? logic whic
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"This site has been reported as unsafe Microsoft recommends that you don't continue to this site. It has been reported to Microsoft for containing harmful programs that may try to steal personal or financial information." Uh
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When I want to be sure I will stay asleep after The Four AM Pee, I take two Benadryl before bed. I try not to do it too often, because apparently one quickly builds a tolerance for it. < https://journals.lww.com/psychophar
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Very hard to know if you've missed logging some billable time if your work day isn't in the time tracking system. We hemorrhaged billable hours when I said ppl didn't have to log non-billable time. You'd end up with a 2.
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This is a great resource but the RFC-style documentation says what you SHOULD and MUST do, not HOW to do it ...
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Burnout is brutal. I dug into people's experience of it on Twitter in 2019: https://twitter.com/gnat/status/1082537720335888384 A recurring pattern that I saw was that the pressure of responsibility for other
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Can confirm. Whatever the success of other public health measures in NZ, contact tracing was insanely high cost if done manually (and spinning up new contact tracers was much harder than it sounds). The Bluetooth and "scan here" t
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https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/15/crypto-energy-texas-... (from another comment to this post)
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It's inspirational self-help rhetoric, it may not actually MEAN anything. But you could parse it as: "reputation" is your standing in the eyes of others, and if you define success as a good reputation then you cede control of
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Sounds like: If you own the company and you decide to close a product line, you're pivoting and being a good owner. If you sell your company to someone and the acquirer closes a product line, they're ruining your company.
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Two things I recommend: the Google tech writing courses: https://developers.google.com/tech-writing And "Bugs in Writing", which I've been pressing into people's hands for twenty years now. https:/
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Summary: The VS Code C# extension is being embraced and extended: it is currently open source, and built on OmniSharp. The roadmap is to move Microsoft's development to build the C# extension around LSP instead of OmniSharp, which will
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Caveat emptor: "Our online courses are inspired by Hillsdale College's core curriculum—which accounts for one-half of our undergraduate education. They provide a coherent citizen's education in the liberal arts, which pursues
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The article links to "101 Tactics for Revolutionaries", which wants a Wordpress login. Here it is in the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20130413172018/https://thinkpurp...
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"The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory" by John Seabrook covers the Max Martin phenenomenon and more. I greatly enjoyed it, and if you enjoyed Rick talking about Max Martin then I reckon you'll like it too. (I'm also
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See Blackadder Season 3 for an explanation of why "cromulent" is now a punchline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOSYiT2iG08
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Ah, thanks. OMFG and I thought our billing was hard. You're in my thoughts and prayers!
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By "temporal model" do you mean relational tables of "customer X used Y amount of this resource at price Z from timestamp A to timestamp B" or ... ?
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Former O'Reilly editor here: story checks out. The 1/3 might be a bit low -- I had some surprises (one guy joined the Peace Corps and moved to South America, plus usual divorces and deaths and job changes) but it felt more like 80
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Shame! A bunch of our retail clients use them as in-store devices for staff who walk the retail floor -- they don't need to make calls or take gigapixel photos so the iPhone is overkill (and thus expensive) for them. I expect they&#x27
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Napoleon was said to execute a general every now and then "pour encourager les autres" -- to encourage the others.
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Whereas I feel like you can learn to make games from any number of sources, but learning the history is what makes this book special. Different strokes for different folks.
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(O'R author and former editor 1999-2006 here) If finance is your only motivation for how you spend your time, do not write a book. It's a very long tail business. Good sales, whether you self-publish or have a publisher, come from
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(O'Reilly author and ex-editor here) Editorial effort and quality control also plays into the purchase decision: I have a sense of what "an O'Reilly book" will be today, just like I have a sense of what "a Packt boo
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Even the Perl error messages are great. I've worked in Python and C# since my years with Perl, and neither has error messages worth a damn compared to Perl's. Perl tries to tell you where you went wrong. The others just tell you
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(Nat Torkington here) Thanks for the kind words about Perl Cookbook! I had fun writing it and learned an enormous amount from Tom. The philosophy was that we show you the possible answers, tell you when each is appropriate, and then tell yo
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Thanks!

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